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  •   Home > News > Sports > Basketball

    No joy for the New Zealand Breakers basketballers on their US tour

    No joy for the New Zealand Breakers basketballers on their US tour


    They've been swept by the NBA sides in their pre-season games, going down 117 to 89 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in their third and final game.

    The Breakers had more than held their own early on, leading for large parts of the first half... it was 60-all at halftime.

    BASKETBALL WITH BK'S GHOST PEPPER WHOPPER. THE SPICIEST WHOPPER YET

    © 2025 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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     03 Dec: Kiwi guard Tai Webster's returned for a third Australian Basketball League stint with the Breakers
     02 Dec: Australia have completed a clean sweep of the Tall Blacks in their two basketball World Cup qualification games
     29 Nov: A glass half full mindset for the Tall Blacks basketballers after letting a chance slip for a rare victory over their Australian counterparts
     25 Nov: Breakers development player Tukaha Cooper has copped a one-month ban from basketball after testing positive for cannabis
     25 Nov: Max Darling will miss the Tall Blacks' basketball World Cup Qualifiers against the Australian Boomers with concussion
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